MonicaE covered most of it. The bit I would add on dating apps for single moms is below.
Unless you are in a major metro, expect whether the moderation is real or decorative to be the limiting factor on the service.
Anything I recommend around that one has to clear one bar, which is how usable it is one-handed on a phone.
Reply rate on the app roughly doubled once I stopped leading with a compliment, though how many conversations reach a second message never budged.
The reason I stopped recommending some of these is whether the filters survive a refresh.
My first week on the site looked promising; by the second I was only really watching how much control you get over who sees you.
That is my read on dating apps for single moms anyway, others will have had different luck.
the Datescout community threads came up when I asked the same question last year.